American Morons Defeated Three Times In 24 Hours
I’m under no illusion that the world will run short of morons any time soon, any more than the Sahara will run short of sand. Sometimes good news seems hard to find, and it can be hard to find new …...
View ArticleTrayvon: A View From The UK
A tweeter questioned today whether I (being British and watching from afar) perhaps don’t understand the anger driving people over the Trayvon Martin shooting. I’d suggested that all sides needed to...
View ArticleBoris’s Imaginary Knife Crime Epidemic
Everyone, in London and beyond, will remember the horrendous knife-crime epidemic of early-2008. The story was spread far and wide – indeed, friends of mine from France and the United States mentioned...
View ArticleFiona Patten of the Australian Sex Party
The Australian Sex Party is a recently-formed progressive political party, with a strong emphasis on civil liberties. Dismayed that none of the mainstream parties were prepared to stand up to lobbyists...
View ArticleHow Europeans Can Help Defend US Democracy
Europe has always been the world’s most divided and war-torn continent (the past 60 years of relative peace have helped us forget this inconvenient truth). In the 20th century, we decided to finally...
View ArticleGreek Man Admits Racist Murder on Facebook
As the global corporatocracy forces Greece into implementing austerity measures that are guaranteed to destroy the country’s economy, the inevitable outcome is a widespread collapse into poverty, a...
View ArticleShould Bolivia Ban Coke?
For half a century or more, the Great American Terrorist Roadshow has brutalised one region after another, crushing freedom (in the name of freedom), deliberately destroying economies, creating chaos,...
View ArticleSex, Lies and Julian Assange (TV documentary)
Given the amount of noise around the Assange case for the past few days, it’s unsurprising that confusion reigns. The rape allegations against Assange, made two years ago, have suddenly resurfaced, and...
View ArticleThe Left’s Huge Failure Over Julian Assange
A couple of months back, I wrote a blog post lamenting the sad decline of the left: once the home of free thought and scientific reasoning, now the home of political correctness (aka “nice censorship”)...
View ArticleReport From Palestine
In this audio interview, I meet with a British activist who has visited Palestine twice this year. She reports back on the reality of life for people in the West Bank and Gaza, and we talk about...
View ArticleUS Elections For Dummies
As we approach another US Presidential election, increasing numbers of non-Americans are watching proceedings with great interest; however, the US electoral system is a strange thing, and many...
View ArticleTories, Abortion and Fundamentalists
Abortion has been legal and easily accessible in the UK since its legalisation in 1967, and there is little public support for a change to the law. However, it’s easy to get complacent – laws can be...
View ArticleRomney’s Moronic Supporters
This 8-minute documentary looks at some of Mitt Romney’s supporters, their attitudes and beliefs. These people get to choose the next president. Be afraid!
View ArticleA Message From America’s Elderly
Some election LOLz: An important message from the generation that remembers a time when elections weren’t run by corporations and rigged by Republicans.
View ArticleElection 2012: America’s Tipping Point?
America has two broad histories: what happened, and what Americans think happened. America’s brutal history is hard to square with its talk of liberty and equality, but the schizophrenic nation somehow...
View ArticleLeveson, Corrupt Police and Prostitutes
It should be noted that Lord Leveson, in his infinite wisdom, has chosen to attack press freedom while almost completely ignoring the most serious issue arising from the phone -hacking scandal:...
View ArticleThe Coming West African Spring
West Africa is probably my favourite part of the world. It contains some of the oldest, most stable and (therefore) most developed human cultures on the planet. Its economic development (it probably...
View ArticleGay Marriage: Beware The Backlash
Yesterday, by 400 votes to 175, the House of Commons approved a marriage equality law that finally allows gay men and women to marry on (almost) the same basis as heterosexuals. It was a historic step...
View ArticleRand Paul: Civil Liberties Hero?
As regular readers will know, my political roots lie on the left; but I feel very little affinity with the left today, largely because it has lost touch with its tradition of support for civil...
View ArticleDiane Abbott, Fake Socialist
Back in the 80s, I spent some time as a Labour Party member. In much of the country, Labour was still the defender of organised labour (the clue’s in the name), but in London, a variety of fringe...
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